Army of Frankensteins

2013

Action / Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi

Synopsis

After a failed attempt to propose to his girlfriend, Alan Jones is beaten to within an inch of his life by a street gang and taken to a mysterious lab where Dr. Tanner Finski and his kid genius assistant perform horrible experiments on him hoping to re-animate a Frankenstein. The experiments lead to a hole being ripped in space and time, manifesting an Army of Frankensteins from hundreds of parallel universes and sending them all back to the 19th century, directly into the heart of a bloody battle between the North and South. History will never be the same.

After a failed attempt to propose to his girlfriend, Alan Jones is beaten to within an inch of his life by a street gang and taken to a mysterious lab where Dr. Tanner Finski and his kid genius assistant perform horrible experiments on him hoping to re-animate a Frankenstein. The experiments lead to a hole being ripped in space and time, manifesting an Army of Frankensteins from hundreds of parallel universes and sending them all back to the 19th century, directly into the heart of a bloody battle between the North and South. History will never be the same.

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Reviewed by Peter John Fudpucker1 / 10

Should Be War Crimes Trials...

The people who starred in this movie were obviously a troop of civil
war reenactment actors. The most expense had to be the false mustaches
and beards. These people should never be allowed in a theater or
allowed within 50 feet of a camera ever again.

I needed someone to pull my eye out only 20 to 30 minutes into this
slop. Can anyone explain why the mad scientist needed a living eyeball
to complete his creation? The eyeball was the MacGuffin device! It was
the only thing that drove the plot. Honestly, I was very concerned
about that eyeball.

Every time someone said "Frankenstein" they acted like they didn't know
what that meant. Yet Mary Shelly's novel was published 40 to 50 years
prior to this event. Maybe no one had read it? Books were not that
popular back then in 1864.

I never knew Frankenstein monsters are lighter than air, since the
untethered balloon won't leave the ground until the monster is aboard.
For some unknown reason, balloon rides with a former slave, now
battlefield nurse, makes it cool you killed all those people because
all along you just want to help. But when your Civil War balloon is
shot down by World War 2 anti-aircraft fire, you are happy to have a
lighter than air Frankenstein around.

The appearance of the video game character Megaman in this movie, was
no surprise to me. At this point the drugs the writers were on clearly
had taken effect. This reminds me, the writers should not be allowed
near paper and pens, especially if the producers returned them to the
asylum.

We couldn't end this travesty without yet more insult to history but to
the iconic President Lincoln as well. I seem to recall Lincoln was shot
after the war. Oh well, it didn't happen in this movie just as Hitler
didn't eat a bullet in the bunker for "Inglourious Basterds". Let's
make up some more history and have every child in America drooling at
the TV.

Yes, there should be war crimes trials... for making this movie.

Reviewed by quincytheodore3 / 10

Like actual Frankenstein's monster, it's an abomination of poorly made sci-fi and horror stitched together, but it's highly ludicrous it might trigger some sympathy laughs

Within the first few minutes we can see the less stellar caliber of
acting and production. Nearly everything is made for ironic purpose,
either it's intentional or not. There's so much exaggerated premise and
clumsy delivery, it's hard to take the movie seriously and even as
parody it can barely register any response, aside from a few chuckles
when the film delivers terribly out of place scenes where you can't
help but slightly grin.

The plot is a jumbled mix or time travel and a bunch of sci-fi
gimmicks, none of these really fascinate. Actors are often
cringe-worthy in their performance, although the lead may be funny
since he looks adequately like a normal guy. Characters are variety of
unsuitable personalities with jarring costume and hairdo, or just
simply over the top misinterpretation of the era. Even it plays with
historic and scientific backdrop, the film has no accuracy in either
aspect. I guess it's a tad optimistic to hope for those.

It will get worse towards latter half, if one can make it pass an hour
of characters waddling on a random field and tons of gibberish. The
effect is abysmal, literal green screen mess. It has slightly lengthier
runtime than most movies but there's really not much it has to offer.
You might find some amusement, but it's recommended to invest time
elsewhere.

Reviewed by MrChunks2 / 10

We're from the future and it's time to kick Frankenstein's ass!

This film is supposed to be a horror/comedy parody however it falls
slightly short and is a lot less amusing then the film makers hoped
for. The acting is bad, effects are cheesy, narrative is high-school
simple, and the plot has more holes than Cheddar cheese - pity because
the title alone conjured up loads of potential entertaining visions in
my head, oh how dearly the reality of the film let this down. The
funniest part of the film for me was in the opening where an American
Civil war soldier gets his arm torn off by a Frankenstein who then
beats the soldier with the bloody part of the stump, from here it all
went downhill for me. Even despite the best efforts to use modern
technology and times gone past to create a Steampunk feel in the later
parts of the film didn't quite hit the mark for me. Special mention has
to go to the costume department for the first half of the film, you
will not believe how incredibly fake the moustaches and beards are in
this, Groucho Marx would have laughed!

I'm going to use the word Frankenstein a lot as I mention the monster
in this film, I do know that Frankenstein is the name of the scientist
who built the monster and not the name for the monster. This film
doesn't seem to understand this but if I went off on a rant saying that
this ruined the film for me then I'd need a lot more page space for a
ranty review, instead of that I'll just use the stance the film did and
refer to the monster as a Frankenstein.

The story in a nutshell is that the descendant of a Civil War soldier
is feeling down on his luck after his girlfriend turns down his
marriage proposal. On a long walk home he is assaulted and kidnapped.
He wakes up to find he part of a mad scientists experiment and is about
to lose his eye ball. During the procedure of building a Frankenstein
something goes wrong and the Scientist, his young Igor, the kidnapped
man and a handful of Frankenstein's are sent back in time to the
American Civil war. At first the Frankenstein's attack everyone but a
slave girl manages to communicate with the monster and in effect get
him to fight on her side. Unfortunately it wasn't just people who
travelled in time but also parts of the lab where the Frankenstein was
being put together, on that note the opposition forces in the war
managed to procure some serum which could turn the living into
monsters. On top of the man vs man fighting it later becomes man vs man
vs monster vs new monster, all a bit messy really but it's not hard to
follow who is who's side. The war eventually comes to an end but then
the hero's of the film are beckoned to Washington to meet Abraham
Lincoln who has a mission for them, he wants to stop the newly created
monster and the leader of the opposition forces who themselves are
plotting with John Booth to assassinate Lincoln. Despite everyone's
best efforts to change history it doesn't work. After all the
Frankensteins are dead our hero travels back to the future where once
again he is turned down for marriage by his girlfriend however this
time he isn't as worried as he's grown as a man and can understand the
rejection more.

I was hoping for something better than what unfolded on screen, I feel
this was a little bit of a let down. It also felt like this was two
films tied together, everything that happens from the end of the Civil
war leading to Washington felt like a lot cheaper film - perhaps the
budget had been blown by then, but there was more green room and CGI in
a studio than the first part of the film. I'd go as far as saying the
amount of bad CGI and green-screen in the second part of the film is
off putting. The star of the show was a young Christian Bellgardt who
played the grave robbing, scene stealing "Igor". Despite seeing his
back story and following him around the film your affection only lasts
for a while as he is yet to fully become a convincing actor.

There was a lot of promise which wasn't delivered, as far as parody
horror comedy during the Civil War goes I'd watch "Abraham Lincoln:
Vampire Hunter" any day over this.